The Skyline Trail in Cape Breton has all this and more ... The trail remains level, taking you through lush meadows ripe with wildflowers and intermittent spruce forests. If you hike early ...

The start of the 5 ½-mile Skyline Trail sits near the entrance to the Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise and is marked by stone steps inscribed with a quote by John Muir that reads ...

This trail is a 2.9-mile circuit that ... Byrd Visitor Center is near the midway point of Skyline Drive, offering amazing views of the Big Meadow, a museum, ranger talks, a gift shop, all the ...

Jim O'Connor is a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). He joins the exchange to discuss the ...